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    Hacking the Specs: Frequency Counter on an Oscilloscope (.PDF Download)

    Aug. 17, 2018
    Hacking the Specs: Frequency Counter on an Oscilloscope (.PDF Download)

    Everyone loves a bargain. Who doesn’t love a hacked oscilloscope? Well, it would be unusual for an oscilloscope company to teach you how to hack your own hardware. Besides, that’s already been done (Fig. 1). So, I’m coining a new term: “spec hack.”

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    1. Just a few days after its release, the EEVBlog YouTube channel posted an oscilloscope hack to double the bandwidth of the 1000 X-Series.

    Webster’s dictionary will someday define it as such:

    Spec hack (/spek’hak/), n. When an engineer uses a clever and advanced knowledge of their equipment to achieve equipment performance above and beyond typical expectations of said equipment.

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